One final thing - some keen eyed people will have noticed that Atlassian product manager Bill Arconati has gone through a lot of tickets in their JIRA for Confluence and resolved them with the following text:

Thank you for raising this issue.
While I can see how this feature would be useful, we have no plans to implement it in the foreseeable future.
In order to set expectations, we're closing this request now.
Thanks again for your idea.
Bill Arconati,
Group Product Manager

Says it all.

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I work in a software company, and Bill Arconati's blase response to customer issues makes me both angry and depressed.